The Intrapreneur

For the intrapreneurial employee, advice abounds. They are advised to be courageous, moderate
risk takers, frugal, flexible, and creative about their pathway. Their task is to put together
a team of enthusiastic volunteers, build a network of sponsors, and ask for advice before
asking for resources.

Online forums that encourage new thinking have evolved with Fast
Company and The
Intrapreneuring Cafe being among the favorites. Fast Company has the goal of chronicling
the changes under way in how companies create and compete, highlighting the new practices
shaping how work gets done, showcasing teams who are inventing the future and reinventing
business, and equipping the people exploring this uncharted territory with the tools,
techniques, models, and mind-sets they need. The Intrapreneuring Cafe, run by intrapreneur.com
discusses a variety of specific intrapreneurship issues such as what the best businesses are
for intrapreneurship and government agency intrapreneuring. They also run want ads for
intrapreneurs.

Another direction intrapreneurship is growing is in developing scenarios to anticipate future
trends and responses. Scenarios are stories about possible futures which enable organizations
to learn, adapt and develop better strategies. Scenario planning begins by identifying the
focal issue or decision. There are an infinite number of stories that could be told about the
future; the purpose is to tell those that matter, that lead to better decisions. While
scenarios to-date have primarily been used for large scale planning efforts for such projects
as education in the United States, it is very applicable to the business environment today.